Yurei

Devlog

• Devlog#26 - Dialogue System, Achievements, and Bloodstone Stages
  January 21, 2023 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #action, #rpg, #top-down, #japan

  This devlog covers the last three months of development of Yurei from October 2022 to January 2023. Dialogue System I knew I wanted to tell a story in the game to motivate the player. I kept pushing i... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #25 - New Boss Attacks, Translation System Revamped and More!
  October 09, 2022 by Silvio Carrera#2d, #action game, #blood, #combat, #samurai

  Changing Jobs For the past year or so, I've been tracking the amount of time I put into the project. For some perspective, in March 2022 I put in 5 hours, while in February I put in 44 hours. The reas... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #24 - v0.17 - New Art, 2D Lights and Animator FSM
  March 05, 2022 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #unity, #action

  This month was tough for me. There were some changes to my day job. Suffice it to say that I am exhausted. Nevertheless, I managed to get some work done. New Forest and Castle Tilesets Over the past m... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #23 - v0.16 - Combo, Boss and More!
  February 06, 2022 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #2d

  For this month I managed to get around 84 hours into the project. I'm working with a new artist to get the next areas done and then some enemies. UI Improvements Quite a few of my UI was reworked. It... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #22 - v0.15 - Target Content and More Features
  January 02, 2022 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #ui, #game-design, #top-down

  This month was quite busy. I'm super happy with how much progress I made. I usually track the time I spend on the project. For this month I spent almost 60hours on it. I only work on weekends and days... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #21 - v0.14 - Skill System
  November 29, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#devlog, #debugger, #skills, #gd, #gdd, #design, #game design, #skill

  Skill System For this month, I continued working on the skills. I finished the basic UI to select the skills before the stage. Two skills are implemented, and I'm saving the selection you made. As you... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #20 - v0.13 - Slow Progress
  October 31, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#gamedev, #unity, #samurai

  So, last month I wasn't able to work on the game. I was in an Airbnb and moving to a new house. Things were a little chaotic. Even upon arriving at the house, it took about a week or so to get the bas... Continue reading
• Devlog #19 - v0.12 - Be brave and delete
  August 29, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #game, #madewithunity, #2d

  Moving Countries The past month has been hard. I'm moving to a different country. With covid and lots of things to solve in between. I made sure to spare some time to work on the game. I made the smar... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #18 - v0.11 - Cleanups
  July 31, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#2d, #action, #samurai

  Code Organization At the beginning of this month, I focused on removing stuff that wasn't being used. I had a social system that I had used in a previous game for mobile for example. Just isn't necess... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #17 - v0.10 - New UI and Improvements
  July 03, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #blood, #action

  I had a bit less time this month. Almost half the time to be honest, but I was able to make progress on the game. Like the months before there was a lot of code being tossed out. Trying to make the co... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #16 - v0.9 - New HUD and Improved Archer
  May 29, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#yurei, #samurai, #gameplay, #hud

  This month was good. I focused on removing a lot of "clutter" code. There were a lot of unused classes, some methods lying around as well. I don't want to rework stuff, but if I see something that's n... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #15 - v0.8 - Arena Mode
  April 25, 2021 by Silvio Carrera#samurai, #unity, #action, #arcade

  This new build lets you play through the first levels of the Arena mode. The main mode where you can challenge yourself in different stages built to crush you. Give it a shot :)... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #14 - Game Plan
  October 11, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#unity, #samurai, #arcade, #action game

  For the past two months, I have not been able to continue work on the game. I'm back this weekend and plan to continue. I've decided to reduce the scope of the game. I was aiming for something close t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #13 - Charged Dash Attack
  July 25, 2020 by Silvio Carrera

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  #fsm, #unity, #samurai

  FSM Rework I've spent quite some time reworking the FSM system I was using. I was using one with Scriptable Objects which gave me some nice flexibility. I could set up behaviors with a nice interface... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #12 - v0.7 - Pathfinding
  June 29, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#pathfinding, #screenshake, #samurai

  Pathfinding The first major update of this version is the addition of a pathfinding system. The AI I had was simple. Enemies would move x,y in your direction. I thought it was going to be a headache o... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #11 - v0.6 - Archer Enemy
  June 17, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#2d, #action, #samurai

  Archer The archer is finally integrated with all animations. It's nice having it match the level and the samurai. Once you add the animations you start rethinking the logical states that you have. Sin... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #10 - v0.5 - Breakable objects
  June 08, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#2d, #action, #combat, #samurai

  Breakable Objects Finally got around to adding breakable objects into the game. I was a bit hesitant to add it because of the enemy AI. The movement is quite simple now. I will add pathfinding in the... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #9 - v0.4 - Combat Improvements
  June 01, 2020 by Silvio Carrera

  The enemy archer is moving along. I like how it is turning out and I can't wait to put him into the game. In this version, I focused on code cleanup. Especially in the Shop and State Machine code I h... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #8 - v0.3 - Enemy Waves and Loot
  May 25, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#2d, #action, #samurai

  Yurei - 0.3.0 Work on the archer enemy has been slow. The logic is working fine for quite some time but the art is moving slow. For this version I focused on improving the tutorial area in the beginni... Continue reading
• Devlog #7 - v0.2 - Unique Tiles
  May 24, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#unity, #samurai, #2d, #action

  Yurei - 0.2.0 Over the last two months, I was able to rework and clean up most of the game. I've been trying to remove as much unnecessary stuff as possible and focus on the essentials. It's been tou... Continue reading
• Devlog #6 - v0.1 - First public version
  March 22, 2020 by Silvio Carrera#combat, #action, #samurai

  Yurei v0.1.1 is out! This first public version focuses on combat. Please feel free to try it out and comment what you liked and disliked... Continue reading
• Devlog #5 - Main Character Art
  January 20, 2019 by Silvio Carrera#samurai

  It's a been a while since I've posted on Itch. For the past month or so the major update has been all visual. I've been working with an awesome artist and he's super fast. The dynamic is amazing and w... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #4 - Timelapse #3
  December 17, 2018 by Silvio Carrera#feature updates, #new art

  Mostly working on item use and integrating some of the art (finally). I usually only have time during the weekends so progress has been slow. Thankfully I found a new artist now and that should speed... Continue reading
• Devlog #3 - Items
  November 27, 2018 by Silvio Carrera#gamedev, #dev log, #madewithunity, #top-down, #unity, #samurai, #japan

  For the past couple of weeks, I've been focusing on quite a few things. The biggest new addition is probably the fact that now you can use items. The player can now hold up to three items and use them... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #2 - Shop And Characters
  November 02, 2018 by Silvio Carrera#madewithunity, #unity, #top-down, #zelda-like, #timelapse, #dev timelapse, #gamedev

  Hey guys, how is it going? I have been working on the shop menu and balancing the different types of characters the game will have. This next dev timelapse is a full day's work in just one minute... Continue reading
• Devlog #1 - The Ghost Samurai
  September 30, 2018 by Silvio Carrera

  So, I've been working on these game for a couple of months. It's starting to shape up and art will come in soon. If you like Samurais and top down action game be sure to check it out here or on twitte... Continue reading